Well... I don't have a problem with someone posting their homework if they show some effort on their own in solving the problem. If someone posts their homework and it is in the form of "I tried this, it doesn't work and I get these errors, where am I going wrong?" then I will be all about trying to help that individual come up with a solution to fix their broken code.

Someone posts " here's my assignment write me an answer to it" and I am going to be less inclined to be helpful.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, we all were beginners once and it is up to us "older and wiser" folks to help out the current crop of beginners. Sometimes helping them means telling someone to do their own work.

Peter L. BergholdBrewer of Belgian Ales
Peter@Berghold.Netwww.berghold.net
Unix Professional

Edit by tye, use 2 ULs (not 3) to match the 2 /ULs

In reply to Re: Homework threads aren't necessarily evil by blue_cowdawg
in thread Homework threads aren't necessarily evil by dragonchild

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